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(Appuc'ation med Feb, 2o, 1899.)

' llNTTnn STATns JOSEPH IIILBERT, OF DUSSELDORF, GERMANY.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent NO. 653,239, dated July 10, 1900. Application led February 20, 1899. Serial No. 706,l63. (No model.)

To (all whom t may concern: v

Be it known that I, JosnPH IIILBERT, a citizen of the German Empire, and a resident of Dusseldorf, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Docnment- Files or Portfolios, of which the following is a specification. l

This invention relates to a document-ille which can be held either in a distended position to constitute a shelfor may be contracted and folded to constitute a portfolio.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of my improved document file, showing itdistended; Fig. 2, an end View thereof; Fig. 3, an end View showing the [ile collapsed; and Fig. 4, an enlarged side View, partly in section, of one of the hinged framebars s.

The letters a a represent a number of su` perposed flexible bellows open at one or both ends andprovided with partitions a', which constitute shelves. To the upper and lowermost bellows a are secured heads or covers d,

provided with eyes o. These eyes are adapted to be removably engaged by pins m, projecting laterally from t'he` ends of a pair of rigid upright frame-bars s, which are made folding by being provided With a central hinge s.

vlows a will collapse.

p and pins that project laterally from ably engage the eyes, substantiallyas speci- When the file is to constitute a shelf, the pins m are brought into engagement with the 3o eyes o to hold the bellows t in a distended position and permit documents, letters, dsc., to be placed upon the partitions a in the compartments.

i When the tile is to constitute a portfolio, 35 the pins nt are Withdrawn from the covers d and the bars s are removed, so that the bel- In this condition the bya lock, fastener, or

bellows may be closed by flaps 7c.

What I claim is i A file composed of a series of superposed flexible bellows having partitions, covers secured to the upper and lowermost bellows, eyes on the covers, folding upright frame 45 bars composed of a pair of hinged sections, the ends of the frame-bars and are adapted to removfied.

Signed by me at Dusseldorf, 7th day of February, 1899. JOSEPH. HILBERT.

0 Germany, this Witnesses:

WILLIAM EssENWEIN, GEO. P. PETTIT. 

